Clothes hanger



D. CARLIN 1 CLOTHES HANGER Y July 1, 11-930.

' Filed Jan. 29. 1929 Patented July 1, 1930 UNITED STATES DAVID CARLIN,OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CLOTHES HANGER Application filed January 29, 1929. Serial No. 335,814.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in clotheshangers, especially that type provided with a horizontal bar to supporta dress or pair of trousers. Usually, the bar of thistype of hanger hasits ends within the ends of the coat supporting member, and whenrelatively wide dresses or trousers are arranged upon the bar, they willbe forced inwardly at their edges, resulting in the wrinkling of thesame.

The primary object of my invention is to equip a generally conventionalclothes hanger with a supporting bar for a dress or pair of trouserswherein the length of the bar is at least as great as the length of thecoat hanging bar, and in view of the fact that the width of the shoulderportion of a coat is always as great, if not greater than the width of adress or pair of trousers, complernentary thereto, the dress or trouserscan be so supported upon the bar as not to wrinkle.

An additional object is to provide novel and simple means whereby theends of the horizontal bar can be properly associated with the ends ofthe coat supporting member of the hanger, and the ends of the barproperly maintained in spaced relation with the ends of the coatsupporting member.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is an elevation of my improved hanger, a pair of relativelywide trousers and knickerbockers being arranged in unwrinkled positionupon the horizontal supporting bar.

Figure 2 is a fragmentary elevation of one end of the coat member of thehanger, disclosing one embodiment of the means whereby my improvedhorizontal bar may be attached thereto, the attaching means beingillustrated in cross section.

Figure 3 is an end elevation of my im- 7 proved hanger.

Figure 4 is a View similar to Figure 2, disclosing a modified manner ofattaching the ends of the horizontal bar to the coat member of thehanger, and

Figure 5 is a perspective of said horizontal bar.

Now, having particular reference to the drawing, 5 designates the usualcoat supporting member of a clothes hanger usually consisting of twosimilar sections interconnected at their abutting ends as at 6 andprovided at their abutting ends with a supporting hook 7. In carryingout the present invention, I provide a bar 8 of metal or suit ablematerial, and of a length substantially equivalent to the length of-thecoat member 5. At the ends of thisbar thereis provided inturned members99 of a predetermined length, the extreme ends thereof being preferablyflattened as at 10, and these flattened ends engaged within notches atthe ends of the coat member 5, asdisclosed in Figure 2, and designatedby the reference character 11.

The flattened portion of each inturned member is provided with acounter-sunk opening in order that it may be rigidly secured to the coatmember 5 by a screw or the like 12. The length of the inturned members9-9 of the bar 8 is such as to provide a satisfactory spaced relationbetween the bar 8 and the ends of the coat member, so that when trousersor other relatively wide garments are arranged upon the bar, they willnot abut at their side edges the ends of the bar and I become'wrinkled.Furthermore, by reason of the bar 8 being of increased length, widetrousers, kinckerbockers and the like may be supported thereon in anunwrinkled condition.

In Figures 4 and 5, there is illustrated a slightly modified method ofattachment of the horizontal bar to the ends of the coat member. In thismodification, 5 designates fragmentarily the coat member, and 8 thetrouser Y supporting bar member. Here also, the bar 8 is of a lengthsubstantially equivalent to the length of the coat member, and isprovided at its opposite ends'with upturned members 9', the extreme freeends of which are provided with right angle inwardly extending pins 13.

Each end of the coat member 5 is provided with a notch or groove 14:,the inner end thereof communicating with a right angle socket 15, thenotch receiving the inner end of the member 9' and the socket slidablyreceiving the pin, as clearly illustrated in Figure 4.

In this instance also, the ends of the bar 8 will be maintained inspaced relation with the ends of the coat member, so that the trousersarranged thereon will not contact with said coat member and furthermore,in view of the increased length of the bar over those of theconventional clothes hangers, relatively wide trousers and knickers canbe disposed thereon, without being crumpled at their ends, which formswrinkles throug out the width thereof.

Even though I have herein shown and dey scribed my invention asconsisting of certain structural elements, it is nevertheless to beunderstood that modifications not illustrated or described can be hadwithout affecting the spirit and scope of the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is:

In a clothes hanger of the character described, a coat'supporting memberof conventionaldesign having supporting means associated therewith, ahorizontal dress and trouser supporting bar for association with the,ends of said coat member, said bar being ofa len 'th substantiallyequivalent to the length 0? the coat member, upwardly extending membersat the ends of the said bar, inwardly turned right angularly disposedpins for securing the free ends of these members with the ends of thecoat member so as to maintain said bar in spaced relation with the endsof said coat member, the extreme ends of said coat member being groovedor socketed for the reception of the free ends of said members, and thepins, said pins slidably extending into the sockets and the free ends ofthe upturned members being positioned in the groove in a manner torigidly couple the bar to the coat member.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

DAVID CARLIN.

